[Tfug] Gentoo Linux?

[Harold G. Stevenson]

Hello,

I have XDarwin installed and I like it so far. But I wonder how it
compares to Gentoo Linux? If anyone has compared them I would like to know
what you think about the two of them. XDarwin uses the Debian packet
manager(apt-get & dselect); and it works fine. I'm actually interested in
how different the packages may be.

Harold

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 Zardus@nbwrpg.com wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Keith J Davey wrote:
>
> > Good Day all,
> >
> > I was just reading up on Gentoo Linux at there homepage.  From the read I am quite interested in this upstart
> > distro.  It seems to me that it may have all the servicablility of Debian with non of the "attitude".  I come from a
> > strong BSD background and this new distro may be just what I am looking for.   I was just wondering if anyone
> > has played with this distro yet, and what your expereances and opinions are.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I have it installed, and its pretty dang cool. The package manager is
> pretty good, and the system remains relatively free of unnecessary
> dependencies. When I installed it (at 1.1a), the install system went kinda
> weird on me and didn't install mount (and a bunch of other things), but I
> think they fixed it at 1.2. It has alot of useful tools for doing a lot of
> the messy config stuff (ie, the rc.* dirs, and swapping nvidia's opengl
> libs for whatever is there), and leaves the rest of the configuration
> for you, but provides reasonable defaults (like most other distros).
>
> The only gripe I have is that its not FHS compliant. I can't get used to
> /usr/qt and /usr/wine, but other than that, its a great distro. Be sure
> you have bandwith, CPU, and RAM for the install, cause it downloads alot
> and compiles even more.
>
> - Yan
>
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